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Mr. Kissinger/The President (tape)
December 9, 1970 8:45 p. m.
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K: Mr. President
P: The thing that concerns me about this thing you sent over on Cambodia
was Moorer's, it seems to me, lame excuse that they did not have any
intelligence because the weather has been bad. I don't think they are trying
to do a good enough job in trying to get the intelligence over there. You
understand what I mean?
K: Yes I do.
P: There are other methods of getting intelligence than simply flying.
They've got the methods of the Cambodians to talk to and a hell of a lot of
other people and I don't think they have done enough there. The second
thing is as I have put on here now I want you to get ahold of Moorer tonight
and I want a plan where every goddamn thing that can fly goes into Cambodia
and hits every target that is open.
K: Right
P: That's to be done tomorrow. Tomorrow. Is that clear?
K: That is right.
P: I want this done. Now that is one thing that can turn this around some.
They are running these goddamn milk runs in order to get the air medal. You
know what they are doing Henry. It's horrible what the Air Force is doing.
They aren't doing anything at all worth a damn.
K: They are not imaginative.
P: Well, their not only not imaginative but they are just running thése things
bombing jungles. You know that. They have got to go in there and I mean
really go in. I don't want the gunships, I want the helicopter ships. I want
everything that can fly to go in there and crack the hell out of them. There is
no limitation on mileage and there is no limitation on budget. Is that clear?
K: Right, Mr. President.
P: Now that he's got to understand. Now the second thing on this drill
and
I want you to tell both Bill and Mel that this is what I have decided to do.
We will go forward on it on the basis, and we will do it - we're not going to
do it on the basis of an open end commitment but on the basis that you are
going to fly in supplies - airlift supplies to a place and SO you airlift a hell
of a lot of troops with it too. Now there must be absolute security on it. It
should be supplies. In other words the troops go in with their supplies - so what.
The South Vietnamese have to - the troops have to unload them don't they?
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